Yesterday we spotlighted Kendrick Lamar‘s blazing verse on the Big Sean “Control” single from his unreleased Hall of Fame album as a way to plot the 2013 NBA Rookie mix-tape. A former championship coach and a Knicks player both responded directly to K.Dot in different ways yesterday, too.

Phil Jackson must have found out that he was name-dropped in the verse, along with almost every contemporary rapper of Lamar’s. Here’s the reference to Phil:

“…I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York / King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both / The juggernaut’s all in your jugular, you take me for jokes / Live in the basement, church pews and funeral faces / Cartier bracelets for my women friends I’m in Vegas / Who the f**k y’all thought it’s supposed to be? / If Phil Jackson came back, still no coachin’ me…”

Phil, ever the sage guru, responded on Twitter.

@kendricklamar it’s okay to be cocky and sure, but we all need somebody to lean on. Let’s just call it mentoring.

What an incredibly Phil Jackson thing to tweet: part Siddartha aphorism, and part tsk-tsking grandfather. Just fantastic. We all need more Phil Jackson in our life.

Knicks swingman Iman Shumpert also responded to K.Dot’s track. Perhaps after being asked to provide a single for First Lady Michelle Obama‘s hip hop album, Shump felt like he’d reached a level in music where a rejoinder was necessary.

As our Senior Editor has already pointed out to us, there’s never been a worse song hyped as much as “Control” was yesterday. The rest of the Big Sean track is awful, but it does show you how amazing Lamar’s guest spot really was.